Strap in, because we're in for a funky ride.
In this episode we're looking at two films that each feature a married couple and how they cope with a wartime situation. In 1967's Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard gives us a truly awful couple in Corinne and Roland, each of whom is already plotting to kill the other as the film begins. The film as a whole is a funhouse mirror of a look at a general breakdown of society. This is NOT a film for the squeamish, and yet it's darkly comic all the way through.
Only a year later, Ingmar Bergman gave us Shame, starring Liv Ullmann and Max Von Sydow as a couple who have tried to isolate themselves from the rest of the world while a civil war rages, but unfortunately it manages to encroach upon them and change them, probably irreparably.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
In Reel 27, we lighten up just a little bit as we take a look at a pair of films that feature the unlikely plot point of gangsters fighting against...Nazis? Yes, indeed. First we have All Through the Night, from 1942 (so, in the heart of the war). From there we jump to 1991 and The Rocketeer, which is actually set in pre-war California, but that's okay: Nazis were already a thing by then.
